Antiferromagnetic spin structure and domains in exchange-coupled multilayers

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 38, Issue 5 I, 2002, Pages 2736-2740

  Chien, C L ^a   Gornakov, V S ^b,c   Nikitenko, V I ^a,b,c   Shapiro, A J ^b   Shull, R D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Antiferromagnetic (AFM); Domain; Exchange bias; Spin structure

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC DOMAINS; MAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; MAGNETIC FILMS; MAGNETOOPTICAL DEVICES; MULTILAYERS;

SPIN STRUCTURE;

ANTIFERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS;

EID: 0036762345     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2002.803169     Document Type: Article

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